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Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1927, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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NEW Al ICROSCOPE. LONDON, AI ay 12.

A woiiderlul new microscope was shown at the Royal Society by Air •u E. Barnard, whose studies with Dr f*.'e on the filter-passing cancer virus astonished the world last year. Th new instrument will give a magnifying power *.I 3AOk and will show the interim* organs of the in iscrobe. “Germany and America hint* nolhnig to cimm: re with the iniero.seupe.’’

•'•aid Air Barnaul. “We are advancing so rapid y. a.tor being stuck for thirty .'ears, the: e on this instrument may he out ol dr;, in a year or two.”

HPAIAN SACRIFICES. CALCUTTA. Alay J 3.

The Indian Government’s Raima expedition to the Nuga hilly country, to secure the abandonment of slavery, was success! ill in securing the abandonment of human sacrifices. Alativ large tribes and five hundred chiefs attended the conference at which it was decided to sacrifice animals only in future. I he chiefs gave the expedition officers one hundred and fifty skulls of firmer victims, as an evidence of their good intention. NEW FRENCH TARIFF. PARIS, .May 13. The Chamber of Deputies has begun the debate on a new Customs tariff, which is arousing fierce controversy m view of its possible effect on the already high cost of living. The hill greatly increases the tariffs against British hoots, shoes, textiles, tods, machinery and chemicals.

TRADE RIV A LEA". GENEVA. Alay 13

I lie Economic Conference’s Commerce Sub-Commission has adopted recommendations as follows: That all Governments shall refrain from further subsidising commercial and industrial transportation and that they shall favour the limitation of dumping.